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Imaniman: A Night of Poetry
2017-06-03 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras, identity, and art.
Featured poets: Dan Vera, Kim Shuck, Tomas Moniz, Suzy de Jesus Huerta
Appetizers and drinks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Imaniman will be available for purchase at this event. We take both cash and credit card. Imaniman: A Night of Poetry is a MAPP event.

Babylon Salon
2017-06-03 17:30 - 20:00 | The Armory Club, 1799 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Saturday, June 3
featuring

Brenda Hillman

Meron Hadero

Erin Byrne

and many more…

at our exciting new venue
The Armory Club
in the
downstairs performance space
1799 Mission St
(across from the Armory Building)

Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
2017-06-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Strawberry Creek Lodge, 1320 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94702, United States
Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.
between Acton & Bonar St.
Parking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)
Check in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location
(usually Movie Room, or backyard garden)
All Ages Welcome
Come and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —
3-5 minutes per poet/reader, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂

Youth Poetry Workshop w/ Kim Shuck + Dan Vera
2017-06-03 12:30 - 15:00 | Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Poets Kim Shuck of San Francisco and Dan Vera of Washington, DC will host a poetry workshop for young adults, by drawing on the poetry anthology, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books, 2016). Students will have a chance to explore new voices and styles of poetry–concentrating on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa–and will write and share their own poetry over the course of the workshop.
This event is free and open to the public, but young, aspiring Latino/a poets are especially encouraged to participate. This workshop will be held in Studio D, in the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts.
Hosted by Aunt Lute Books, and underwritten by the NEA and CAC.
Snacks will be provided.

Drag Queen Story Hour
2017-06-03 12:00 - 14:00 | San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, 94102, United States
DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – EUREKA VALLEY LIBRARY

June 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
San Francisco Public Library – Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch •

Saturday June 3
12pm
Eureka Valley Library
San Francisco
FREE
Featuring Panda Dulce

ABOUT DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR
Created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.
ABOUT PANDA
Panda Dulce is a drag queen who was born and raised in San Francisco. Sometimes Panda dresses like a girl, and sometimes Panda dresses as a boy. (But she feels most special when you call her a girl). Panda believes that whatever makes you different, is beautiful and powerful. Remember to be proud of yourself, always.

2017 Bay Area Book Festival
2017-06-03 00:00 - 2017-06-04 00:00 | Downtown Berkeley
Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.
As a festival sponsor, the Center will be participating in panels and events, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet Center staff and purchase Two Lines Press publications at our booth.
Stay tuned for more information.

Poets of Color Podcast
2017-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street, San Francisco , CA, 94110, United States
Fundraiser: Poets of Color Podcast
Friday, June 2, 2017 | 7:00 pm
Fundraiser and Showcase for the upcoming Poets of Color Podcast.
The Poets of Color Podcast is dropping June 2017 and your host’s Asha Sudra & Chris “L7” Cuadrado need your help to make it happen!
Come enjoy some poetry from local bay area poets of color, find out what we have planned for the show, and meet other folks in the community invested in PoC words and narratives.
Featuring:
Asha Sudra
Chris “L7” Cuadrado
Flavia Mora
Sharif Zakout
Hablo Rw

& More TBA!
$5 – $10 (NOTAFLOF)

RHINO Poetry Magazine's 40th Anniversary Reading Series
2017-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Adobe Books, 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Adobe Bookstore welcomes RHINO Poetry magazine and hosting a the reading as part of their 40 Readings in 40 Cities tour! A great series of readings to celebrate RHINO Poetry magazine’s 40th anniversary.
Special guests:
Peter Kline, Brittany Perham, Roy Mash and Cintia Santana.
http://rhinopoetry.org/

First Friday: Naked Truth real.stories.live
2017-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Reading Room, Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley , CA, 94941, United States
Registration highly recommended. Registration will open Friday May 19th.
For Adults and High School Students only.
Sit back, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories, raw and without notes.
It’s the 50th anniversary of the summer of love, when tens of thousands of young people, in search of something different, came to San Francisco to find it. In honor of this very special moment in time, our line-up of talented storytellers will share their own present-day stories of peace, love, and liberation.
Josh Healey is back to emcee with storytellers Emily Epstein White, Phil Surkis, and others.
If you have a story to tell from the summer of love, we want to hear it. Throw your name in the hat to tell a one minute story in our optional audience lightening round.

Brian Hassett's Beat Cafe
2017-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 | The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and keynote essayist in The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, Brian Hassett performs a comical collage of original and Beat works including a nobody’s-ever-done-it-before chapter from Kerouac’s final novel Pic.
Longtime friend of Edie Kerouac-Parker, Carolyn Cassady, Henri Cru, and numerous other Beat and Prankster luminaries, Hassett is a natural and funny storyteller, and has preformed Kerouac & the Beats on stage in Amsterdam, London, Toronto, New York, L.A. & at The Beat Museum’s own Beatnik Shindig in 2015.
This appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos, bringing the total in the book to 70!
This will be his first Bay Area performance in two years and the only one this Summer of Love.
Special guests are likely.
Lively guests are a certainty.
Charming event.

San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
2017-06-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Book Passage San Francisco, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
3 Minute Reads from San Francisco Grotto Writers • 50+ Writers, 3 Minutes Each!
Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine, fun, and fresh new writing.

Play: Exhibit + Reading
2017-06-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Pro Arts Gallery, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
The AfroSurreal Writers and the Kiss My Black Arts Collective will open Let’s Play: Intuition, Imagination, and Black Creativity on Fri., June 2 at Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank Ogawa Plaza).

This exhibit features more than a dozen Black writers and artists, with digital and audio projections of their work, and follows a year of readings/workshops, cleanings and plantings along Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue. The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity.
Readers include women from Serenity House and the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop’s reading series on Intuition and Creativity, as well as writers/artists Jacqueline Bishop, Renee Alexander Craft, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jewelle Gomez, Victor LaValle, James Lee, Kyla Marshell, Sharan Strange, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Dawnie Walton, and artwork from the Members of the Kiss My Black Arts Collective, who will create a mural inside the gallery based on their outdoor mural at San Pablo and Market.

About the Kiss My Black Arts Collective: The Kiss My Black Arts Collective exists to help artists take your creativity to the next level Economically. Together, they create social economics through Mural projects, workshops and art exhibitions, while encouraging participation and collaboration amongst their members, local artists, and community leaders through democratic controlled enterprises. About the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop: The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop amplifies the voices of emerging and established writers and artists of color who create surreal, futurist, speculative fiction, fantasy, science fiction, horror, dystopian, apocalyptic, weird, or absurdist literature and art, centered in perspectives of people of color. About Serenity House: Serenity House was originally established as a recovery program for women suffering from addiction. Today, we provide services for women who have been raped or molested as children, suffer from addiction, homelessness, mental health, and/or emotional issues caused by trauma.

Charmaine Craig
2017-06-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Books Inc. Burlingame, 1375 Burlingame Ave, Burlingame, CA, 94010, United States
National-bestselling author Charmaine Craig shares her masterful new novel, Miss Burma. Based on Charmaine’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burmais a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.

Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Juliana Delgado Lopera
2017-06-02 12:30 - 13:00 | CA
Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Juliana Delgado Lopera in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show.

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Four Way Review, Eleven Eleven, Foglifter, The Bold Italic, Weird Sister, Black Girl Dangerous, and SF Weekly, among others. Lopera has performed in countless venues around the West Coast and lectured at San Francisco State University, Wayward Writers and 826 Valencia. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.

YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes
2017-06-01 19:30 - 22:00 | The Lost Church, 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8pm
Tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1478069
$10 in advance [plus online fees] or $10 at the door.
If cost is a concern, please contact ned@yg2d.com.
YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes
is a total open mic event, with no set or featured performers,
but only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying, to embrace our losses & mortality,
to grieve, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…
while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE.
Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly, so if you want to perform, you’d better get there early…
If you’re going to perform, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)].
Poetry, prose, music, dancing, comedy, drama, happy, sad, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want.
You don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers.
Please don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument, figure it out before you’re called to the stage.
IMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged.
You’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.

Mark Lukach + Sachi Cunningham
2017-06-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Join Mark Lukach and Sachi Cunningham in conversation about mental health, family, and creativity as Mark releases his new book, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward.
About My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love.
Mark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that her loved ones were not safe.
Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended.
A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor, radiant with compassion, and written with dazzling lyricism, Lukach’s is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers’ faith in the power of love.

Robert Hass + David Koehn
2017-06-01 19:30 - 21:30 | Studio One Arts Center, 365 45th Street, Oakland, CA, 94609, United States
Please join us on Thursday, June 1st for a reading and conversation with Robert Hass & David Koehn to benefit Omnidawn.

Robert Hass​’s​ books of poetry include Time and Materials, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz’s poetry, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and, most recently, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984, and Now and Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns, 1997-2000. From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife, the poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley.

David Koehn’s first full length manuscript, Twine, now available from Bauhan Publishing, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David’s poetry and translations were previously collected in two chapbooks, Tunic, (speCt! books 2013) a small collection of some translations of Catullus, and Coil (University of Alaska, 1998), winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. Omnidawn just released Compendium, a collection of Donald Justice’s take on prosody. David’s second full-length collection, Scatterplot, is due out from Omnidawn in 2020. David’s writing has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Rhino, Volt, Carolina Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Diagram, McSweeney’s, The Greensboro Review, and many others.

Flash Fiction Collective
2017-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
The Flash Fiction Collective is thrilled to feature Jimin Han, Julia Halprin Jackson, and Gary Singh at our June reading! Join us at Alley Cat in the Mission for an evening of great stories and great conversations.
Jimin Han was born in Seoul, Korea and grew up in New York, Rhode Island, and Ohio. Her writing can be found at NPR’s “Weekend America,” Entropy, The Rumpus, HTMLGiant, Hyphen Magazine, Kartika Review, KoreanAmericanStory.com. A Small Revolution (Little A Books) is her first novel. She teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.
Julia Halprin Jackson’s work has appeared in West Branch Wired, Oracle Fine Arts Review, California Northern, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. She is the publicity director for Play On Words, a literary series in San Jose. She has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and currently contributes to Washington Square, San Jose State University’s alumni magazine.
Gary Singh is currently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. As a scribe, he’s published over 1000 works including travel essays, art and music criticism, profiles, business journalism, lifestyle articles, poetry and short fiction. For 600 straight weeks, his newspaper columns have appeared in Metro, the alternative weekly paper of San Jose and Silicon Valley. As a poet, his works has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine, Maudlin House and several more. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (2015, The History Press). http://www.garysingh.info/

Weekday DONderlust
2017-06-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Hello Wanderlusters! We hope you are out wandering our wide world but land back in San Francisco on Thursday June 1. It’s our annual DONDERLUST celebration of Don George’s Birthday, made extra special because we are also feting the new release of THE BEST WOMEN’S TRAVEL WRITING, edited by our own Lavinia Spalding. Woot! This incredible collection will be hot of the presses and is full of fantastic tales from women writers. We are honored to introduce you to three of them that will take you to the Czech Republic, France, and Japan. No passport needed, just bring your effervescent spirit of community as we welcome Jennifer Kelley, Colette Hannahan, and Yukari Iwatani Kane. It’s our last event before our summer hiatus so please come say hello. Bios will be posted on our FB page. Our readings are held at the always hospitible Hotel Rex and start prompty at 7 pm, but you can find a group of thirsty travelers and writers in the Library Bar at 6 pm. See you there! ~WW

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi + Meron Hadero
2017-06-01 18:30 - 19:30 | Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Join us for a conversation about Kintu with author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Meron Hadero. The program will include a wine reception and booksigning. Tickets are $10 for non-members, free for members of MoAD.
First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the kingdom of Buganda. Along the way, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation, Makumbi weavestogether the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future.
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel, Kintu, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories, Travel is to See, Return is to Tell. Jennifer lives in Manchester, UK with her husband, Damian, and her son, Jordan.
Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American whose short stories appear or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI, The Missouri Review, Boulevard, The Normal School Online, Indiana Review, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, a JD from Yale Law School, an AB from Princeton in history, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto working on a novel and story collection.

Scaachi Koul + Doree Shafrir
2017-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Book Passage San Francisco, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
A conversation between Saachi Koul and Doree Shafrir.
A debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants, addressing sexism, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by rising star Scaachi Koul.
In One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with internet trolls, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision, or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself.
With a sharp eye and biting wit, Koul offers a hilarious, scathing, and honest look at modern life.
Scaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Hairpin, The Globe and Mail, and Jezebel. She lives in Toronto.

Mack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app, TakeOff, is already the hottest thing in tech and he’s about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business–in startup parlance, an elusive unicorn.
Katya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.
Sabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger, hipper, and much more computer literate since she’s been away.
Before the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack’s scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work, it’s up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold.
An assured, observant debut from the veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir, Startup is a sharp, hugely entertaining story of youth, ambition, love, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature.
Doree Shafrir is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News and has written for New York Magazine, Slate, The Awl, Rolling Stone, Wired and other publications. A former resident of Brooklyn, she now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira, a comedy writer and podcaster, and their dog Beau.

Radar Superstar: A Queer AF Variety Show
2017-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 | San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, 94102, United States
Join Radar Productions for our annual celebration showcase. We choose 4 incredible queer artists and welcome you to the gorgeous Koret Auditorium for a free show!
Thursday, June 1
Show begins at 6pm
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street
Koret Auditorium (lower level)
Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera
FEATURING…
Clement Hil Goldberg
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo
Mari Naomi
Lydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee
Clement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film, sculpture, and animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling in 2013. In 2016 Clement received their MFA in Art Practice and New Media certificate from UC Berkeley. Their current project Our Future Ends was awarded a 2016 visual arts Creative Work Fund grant in collaboration with CounterPulse. Goldberg’s work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival.
Vanessa Lewis, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X, is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, filmmaker, educator, facilitator, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt, laugh, perform, crack corny jokes, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism and Director of queer, Black, multi-disciplinary performance troupe, Congregation of Liberation. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer theatre projects and cabarets, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir, poetry, theatre, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love, socioeconomic justice, anti-racism, community accountability, critical reflection, love, healing, and liberation. She loves romantic songs, romantic films, romantic books, romantic conversations, romantic friendships, and writing long, vulnerable, passionate facebook statuses about romance.
Ana María Montenegro (1986) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco, CA. Her work is a series of conceptual experiments that deal with the structural rules that govern image composition, the protocols of narrative genres and the cultural codes that affect them. She uses media that allows her to play with time, text, movement and randomness.
MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites, such as The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program, and is currently a guest editor at PEN America.
Lydia Greer is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work includes sculptural and video installation, single channel video, puppet theatre, hand-made animation and works on paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. Lydia is interested in the most elaborate forms of storytelling and time based art such as opera, film and puppet theatre as well as the narrative charge of everyday objects and how communication ceremonies play out in the personal, spiritual and historical/political arenas. Each narrative she works with is a misremembered, taboo or unreliable story inviting audience engagement in narrative construction and play. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET’S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE, a handmade, ragtag puppet company in Portland, OR. Since then her mixed media work has been shown at the Exploratorium Museum, Artists’ Television Access, Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, Santa Clara University, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Berkeley Center for New Media, Adobe Back Room Gallery, Royal None Such Gallery and SomArts among other venues. She has also worked as a puppeteer and designer with ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. Lydia is currently the Artistic Director of Facing West Shadow Opera: a collective of predominantly queer artists, filmmakers, and musicians hybridizing art forms including live opera, animation, shadow theatre and found film to create unique performances, each akin to a live graphic novel with euphoria-inducing live chamber music.
Soprano Shauna Fallihee has been featured with numerous Bay Area ensembles including San Francisco Choral Society, Masterworks Chorale, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Open Opera, West Bay Opera and the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series. Deeply dedicated to the performance of new music, Shauna has performed world premieres and contemporary works with Facing West Shadow Theater, NothingSet Ensemble, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Opus Project, Wild Rumpus, Ensemble Mik Nawooj and enjoyed a decade with new music chamber choir Volti. An active educator, Shauna is on the voice faculty at Holy Names University, Chabot College, City College San Francisco, Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She is also a Master Teacher Trainer for The Dailey Method, an alignment-based Barre and Cycle fitness program.

*RADAR SuperStars
2017-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 | SF Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 94102, United States
Join RADAR for its annual birthday and SuperStar Pride Program. On stage tonight are Ana María Montenegro, Clement Goldberg and MariNaomi. Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera and sponsored by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library.
See Queerest.Library.Ever. sfpl.org/hormelat20 for related online exhibits, archives, and resources.

2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
2017-06-01 00:00 - 2017-06-04 23:30 | Castro Theater, 429 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
JUNE 1, 2017 – JUNE 4, 2017
2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Castro Theatre | San Francisco, CA
Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival! Each year the Center sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles. Stay tuned for more information.
SFSFF recently announced the rediscovery of a lost Cecil B. DeMille production—Silence—which is being restored by the Cinémathèque Française and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival as we speak. Silence will have its world premiere at SFSFF 2017.
Also, the cat is out of the bag: Alloy Orchestra will premiere its new score for one of the most intriguing films of the silent era, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness, in a new restoration.
The complete schedule will be revealed in late March 2017.

CONTACT:

Leslie-Ann Woofter
lwoofter@catranslation.org
(415) 512-8812

Wendy Lesser
2017-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Books Inc. Berkeley, 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, 94710, United States
Wendy Lesser, founder and editor of The Threepenny Review, discusses her landmark biography, You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn.
Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life.
Perfectly complementing Nathaniel Kahn’s award-winning documentary, My Architect, Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick is a major exploration of the architect’s life and work. Kahn, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century American architect, was a public architect. Eschewing the usual corporate skyscrapers, hotels, and condominiums, he focused on medical and educational research facilities, government centers, museums, libraries, parks, religious buildings, and other structures that would serve the public good. Yet this warm, captivating person, beloved by students and admired by colleagues, was also a secretive and mysterious character hiding behind a series of masks.
Drawing on extensive original research; lengthy interviews with his children, his colleagues, and his students; and travel to the far-flung sites of his career-defining buildings, Lesser has written a landmark biography of this elusive man, which reveals the mind behind some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated architecture.

Such a Nasty Woman: Female Writers Respond to Trump
2017-05-31 18:00 - 20:00 | San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St, San Francisco , CA, 94102, United States
Many women woke up on November 9, 2016 and wondered if clocks had been set back 100 years. A man who bragged about his sexual assaults, referred to women as pigs and bimbos, and in a televised debate, called Hillary Clinton “a nasty woman,” had just been elected president.
This man has threatened to defund Planned Parenthood, and implied that military rape is to be expected. His vice president boasts of consigning Roe v. Wade “to the ash heap of history where it belongs.” It’s enough to make a female pacifist take up arms.
This panel of brave, outspoken, and articulate authors will ask some tough questions. How can women hold their ground in such a cultural recession? And what kind of vital role can female writers play during this age of ignorance and fear? Moderated by author/journalist Vanessa Hua.

Martha Grover
2017-05-30 19:30 - 21:30 | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
In her new memoir, Martha Grover goes undercover. Whether cleaning houses or looking for love, she peels back the surfaces of ordinary moments and reveals a life both hilarious and traumatic. The End of My Career sees Grover living with her parents again as she enters her late thirties, reconciling the pleasures and perils of being female, chronically ill, and subsisting on menial labor at the edge of an increasingly unaffordable city. Desperate for stable work, she gets hired as a state-sanctioned private investigator looking into shady workers’ comp claims—even while she herself fights in court for her own disability settlement. Angry and heartbroken, brimming with the outrageous contradictions of the modern world, The End of My Career embodies the comic nightmare of our times.
Martha Grover is a 2017 Oregon Book Award finalist in creative nonfiction. She is also the author of One More for the People(Perfect Day, 2011). She has been publishing her zine Somnambulistsince 2003, and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Cornelia Nixon
2017-05-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore, 2904 College Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
Cornelia Nixon reads from her new novel, The Use of Fame.
“Rarely has a marriage so come alive in a work of fiction. This novel has the power of intensely lived life and the authority of absolute authenticity. The sympathetic presentations of both wife and husband are beautifully drawn. So intense, beautifully written, shining with ‘felt life,’ it is truly gripping–riveting.”–Joyce Carol Oates

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 – 7:30pm

Abigail McCormick and Ray Stark are both poets, married nearly twenty-five years in what has always been a passionate relationship despite deep class differences. Ray is the son of West Virginia coal miners and was abused as a child–but now he is a distinguished poet with a part-time position at Brown. Abby grew up in San Francisco’s posh Pacific Heights and, having abandoned poetry, she spends her energy on a new teaching position at UC Berkeley. Abby’s decision to accept the post sets the stage for Ray to stray, especially as he struggles with a heart condition.
He’s tortured by his affair with the graduate student he’s fallen in love with, but is determined to stay married–he fights to get over Tory for years. A despairing Abby finds solace in her return to riding horses and writing poems, but as she suffers privately, she becomes dependent on sleeping pills and alcohol. As Ray’s health worsens, another cross-country move threatens to push them further apart. Alternating seamlessly between Ray’s and Abby’s perspectives, The Use of Fame is a gripping exploration of how closeness and despair can warp a lover’s perception.
Cornelia Nixon is the author of three other novels, Angels Go Naked, Now You See It, and Jarrettsville, as well as a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, a Nelson Algren Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley, and half on an island in Puget Sound.

Alexandra Teague
2017-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery St, San Francisco , CA, 94131, United States
Alexandra Teague reads from her new novel, The Principles Behind Flotation.
The Principles Behind Flotation (Skyhorse Press, 2017) is the first novel from Alexandra Teague, a former NEA Fellow, Stegner Fellow, and City College of San Francisco instructor, currently an associate professor at University of Idaho.
She has previously published two poetry books—The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea 2010), winner of the 2010 California Book Award.
Echoing novels like Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Alexandra Teague’s lighthearted coming-of-age debut is perfect for anyone who’s navigated the strange seas of adolescence—and lived to tell the tale.
A.Z. McKinney is on the shores of greatness. Now all she needs is a boat.
When the Sea of Santiago appeared overnight in a cow pasture in Arkansas, it seemed, to some, a religious miracle. But to high school sophomore A.Z. McKinney, it’s marked her chance to make history—as its first oceanographer. All she needs is to get out on the water.
Her plan is easier said than done, considering the Sea’s eccentric owner is only interested in its use as a tourist destination for beachgoers and devout pilgrims. Still, A.Z. is determined to uncover the secrets of the Sea—even if it means smuggling saline samples in her bathing suit.
Yet when a cute, conceptual artist named Kristoff moves to town, A.Z. realizes she may have found a first mate. Together, they make a plan to build a boat and study the Sea in secret. But from fighting with her best friend to searching for a tourist-terrorizing alligator (that may or may not be a crocodile), distractions are everywhere. Soon, A.Z.’s dreams are in danger of being dashed upon the shore of Mud Beach.
With her self-determined oceanic destiny on the line, A.Z. finds herself at odds with everything she thought she knew about life, love, and the Sea. To get what she wants, she’ll have to decide whether to sink or float . . . But which one comes first?

Folio Night, LIVE!: Open Mic Night
2017-05-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Our third community open mic night with featured reader, Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, and host Wayne Goodman. Contact us a week in advance if you’re planning to read and you have a book to consign, or bring a few extra copies to sell if we already have your book in stock. Max eight readers, first come first signed up. Five minute time limit per reader (strictly enforced).
